Table of Contents

• NCITS L8 Committee Home Page
• Metadata Registries Workshops
• Future Conferences
• Past Conferences
• U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency )
• State EPAs (Environmental Protection Agencies )
• FGDC
• IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
• IMS Project (Instructional Metadata)
• NASA
• Ontologies, Interchange Formats
• XML - Extensible Markup Language
• RDF - Resource Description Framework
• SGML - Standard General Markup Language
• Standards Organizations (NGO)
• Measurement Units
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  
• Vendors
• Related Software / File Formats
• Other Related WWW Pages
• Code Sets
• EDI (especially XML/EDI)
• Library Metadata (Cataloging)

Metadata Registries Workshops

• Open Forum on Metadata Registries
  
  • Dates: 16-19 February 1999
  • Location: Ronald Reagan Bldg
    Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC
  • Sponsored by:
    • US EPA
  • Web site: ftp://sdct-sunsrv1.ncsl.nist.gov/x3l8/sc32wg2/openforum/index.html
• Metadata Registries Workshop
  The workshop was held in Washington, DC on April 15-17, 1998
  
• Joint Workshop on Metadata Registries
  The workshop was held in Berkeley, in July 8-11, 1997.
  

Future Conferences

• IEEE Metadata Conference 1999

Past Conferences

• Digital Archiving Workshop - DADs
• Metadata Registries Workshop April 15-17, 1998
• DAMA 98 Conference
• Upcoming Conferences at which FGDC will attend
• EO/GEO WWW Workshop 97
• The 4th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop
• 1997 IEEE Metadata Conference
• Joint Workshop on Metadata Registries July 8-11, 1997
• Joint Workshop on Standards for the Use of Models that Define the Data and Processes of Information Systems
• Information Gathering from Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments AAAI Spring Symposium Series March 27, 28, 29, 1995
• IEEE Metadata Conference, April 1996
• Proceedings of the IEEE Metadata Conference, April 1996
• Science Information Systems Interoperability Conference (SISIC) Nov. 5-9, 1995
• OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop, March 1995
• OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop, Dublin Core Report, March 1995
• Summary of CETH Workshop on Documenting Electronic Texts

United States EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WWW
• Major EPA Environmental Databases
• EPA Scientific Models & the National Environmental Supercomputing Center
• EPA Stds. for Laboratory Data Transmission
• EPA Stds. for Latitude, Longitude Data
• EPA Data Standards/Electronic Transmission of Laboratory Measurement Results
• EPA Minimum Set of Data Elements for Groundwater
• EPA Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)
• EPA Envirofacts DB
• EPA Information Resource Management Strategic Planning Documents
• EPA Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Initiative
• EPA Envirofacts Warehouse Data Warehouse of EPA datasets
• EPA Data Registry Data registry for EPA data
• EPA Databases and Software

State EPAs (Environmental Protection Agencies)

• California EPA

FGDC

• FGDC Metadata Content Standard (at NIST)
• Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (US FGDC)
• Minimum Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (US FGDC)
• FGDC Metadata Compliance Tester (US Navy)
• FGDC Home Page

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)

• IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force - Home Page
• URC's - Universal Resource Characteristics Also SGML, Text Encoding Initiative, US MARC ...
• URN's - Universal Resource Names
• URN's - Universal Resource Names (Charter)
• Kahn-Wilensky Handles
• URI Mail Summary
• URC's - Universal Resource Characteristics - by Ron Daniel
• URN's - Universal Resource Names - Mailing List Archive
• URN's - Universal Resource Names - Norwegian site

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)

• IMS Project - Instructional Metadata
• IMS Project Workshop Sept. 1998 (Instructional Metadata)

NASA

• NASA Global Change Data Center (This link is broken)
  
• NASA Global Change Master Directory
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Document FTP server
• NASA Space Physics Data System
• Earth Observing Systemm (EOS) Home Page (NASA)
• Earth Observing Systemm (EOS) Project Science Office (NASA)
• EOSDIS/ESDIS Office (NASA)
• EOSDIS Core System Project (NASA)
• EOSDIS Core System Data Handling Project (NASA)
• EROS Data Center
• NASA Earth and Space Sciences Program
• NASA Earth and Space Sciences Program

Ontologies, Interchange Formats

• Knowledge Sharing Effort
• Library of Ontologies at Stanford, KSL
• CMIL -- An Interchange Language for Composable Engineering Ontologies and Models
• THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC-DATA ONTOLOGY
• Intelligent Software Agents, by Sverker Janson
• Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)
• Description Logics References
• Description Logic Home Page
• Towards Principled Core Ontologies by Andre Valente and Joost Breuker
• Role of Ontologies in Distributed Information Systems by Alun D. Preece
• Ontology ! a list of projects, people, conferences, ....
• Ontology Page at SUNY Buffalo, Philosopy Dept.

XML - Extensible Markup Language and RDF - Resource Description Framework

• IBM's XMI web page (XML Metadata Interchange)
• Robin Cover's XMI web page (XML Metadata Interchange)
• XML Repository
• XML Schema Languages, by R. Bourret
• Finetuning.com's XML Resources
• LORE Database for XML at Stanford
• UN EDIFACT Repository for XML Tags
• delines for using XML for Electronic Data Interchanges
• XML and EDI: Making Interchange on the Web More Efficient Mary LaPlante, Jay Tenenbaum, Charles Allen, Barth Bruce
• OASIS Registry and Repository
• Add Strong Data Typing to SGML and XML Tim Bray
• XML Support in Oracle8i and Beyond
• XML Applications and Industry Initiatives by Robin Cover

SGML - Standard General Markup Language

• Data Documentation Initiative by ICPSR
• Text Encoding Initiative
• SGML (Standard General Markup Language) Web Page
• SGML/MARC for bibliographic Metadata
• SoftQuad - SGML Software Vendor
• SGML Open - Software Vendors
• SGML University commercial training, resources, pubs, etc.
• Graphic Communications Association SGML/XML training, conferences
• JADE a DSSSL Formatting Engine for SGML/XML formatting
• HL7 SGML/XML Special Interest GrouP health informatics stds using XML
• Inso DynaText SGML to HTML
• Inso DynaBase
• DDI - Data Documentation Initiative of ICPSR
• SGML Primer by Softquad
• SGML and Text Encoding Initiative U. Michigan
• SGML and XML Tools by Steve Pepper at Infotek
• Jade - James' DSSSL Engine by James Clark
• Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) Resources by James Clark
• Copernican Solutions Inc. XML, SGML, DSSSL products
• ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4 - Informatino Technology - Document Description and Processing Languages SGML standards committee
• QWeb - SGML-based Web Browser
• SGMLQL - SGML Query Language
• Arijit Sengupta's Home Page He is working on querying SGML documents.
• Adding Strong Data Typing to SGML and XML by Tim Bray
• Useful SGML Links
• EI.pub - Electronic Publishing R and D News by European Union
• Fine Tuning Web Site lots of XML, also MATHML, RDF info ...

Standards Organizations (NGO)

• NCITS (formerly X3L8) Data Element Standardization Committee
• Ad hoc Ontology Standards Committee (proposed for X3T2)
• X3 Standards Committee(s) Rename NCITS (see below).
• NCITS Standards Committee(s) (National Committee for Information Technology Standards) formerly X3 (see above)
• ANSI IISP = Information Infrastructure Standards Panel
• International Standards Organization (ISO)
• International Standards Organization Joint Technical Committe 1 (ISO JTC1) US TAG (Technical Advisory Committee)
• X3H4 Open Repositories Project
• X3H4 Documents (ftp)
• X3L8 Documents (ftp)
• X3L8 Members (ftp)
• OMG - Object Management Group (Stds)
• ODMG - Object Database Management Group (Stds)
• SQL Standards Page (Pointers to other DBMS Stds. Groups)
• Temporal SQL 2
• DISA (Data Interchange Standards Org.) - EDI/EDIFACT
• Computer and Communications Standards (by LLNL)
• SAIF Home Page (Spatial Archiving and Interchange Format )
• ASTM Metadata Standard (ptrs to various versions)
• Open Information Interchange Standards (by EU)
• Open Information Interchange Standards (by EU)
• POSC - Petrotechnical Open Software Corp. Has developed a database schema for petroleum exploration and production activities. Also data exchange formats, etc.
• X/Open Standards Organization
• World Wide Web Consortium
• World Wide Web Consortium Metadata and Resource Description
• World Wide Web Consortium Metadata Activity
• Z39.50 Information (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
• ISO TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics
• Metadata Council - private standards consoritium - for data warehousing (This link is broken)
  
• Scientific and Technical Attribute Set
• Environmental Information Management Standards by U.K. Friends of the Earth (This link is broken)
  

Measurement Units

• The Metric Systems a Concise Reference Guide

World Wide Web Consortium

• World Wide Web Consortium Home Page
• PICS: Platform for Internet Content Selection
• WWW Names and Addresses: URIs, URLs, URNs, URCs
• The URN Interoperatibility Project
• Report of the Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop June 20, 1996
• Sixth International World Wide Web Conference April 7-11, 1997
• MCF: Metadata Content Framework Usin XML by Guha at Apple
• Using PICS as an Internet Metadata Repository by Dr. Renato Ianella
• RDF - Resource Description Framework
• RDF - Resource Description Framework
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) Working Group
• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Technical Reports
• Meta Content Framework in XML
• Channel Definition Format (CDF) by Microsoft, based on XML
• Webliography: Meta Data, Meta Tags, and the Dublin Core by V. Bross 4/13/97
• The Meta-Meta Page on HTML META tags

Vendors

• Microsoft Repository
• Onemeaning A vendor of metadata management and conversion products.

Related Software / File Formats

• netCDF File Format (UCAR)
• HDF File Format (NCSA)
• HDF File Format - EOSDIS extensions
• DRS File Format (LLNL)
• DDI - Data and Dimensions Interface
• KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format) Reference Manual
• ASN.1 Information
  • ASN.1 Tutorial Links
  • ASN.1 Homepage
  • MAVROS ASN.1 Homepage
  • Rinderkecht, Parsing ASN.1:1990 with Caml Light INRIA Tech Report Abstract
  • NCBI FTP Site - ASN.1 Toolbox See entry for toolbox. See also NCBI Toolbox FTP Site README file and NCBI Toolbox FTP Site
  • Open Systems Solutions - ASN.1 Software Provider
• NASA's Directory Interchange Format (DIF)
• North Carolina Supercomputer Center Environmental Programs
  • EDSS - Environmental Decision Support System (NCSC) a model management system for environmental models
• A Distributed Computing Approach to Large-Scale Environmental Modeling - Carnegie Mellon Univ. (This link is broken)
  

Other Related WWW Pages

Code Sets

• ISO 639 Language Codes Rev. 1 (2 letters), etc. 1988
• ISO 639 Language Codes Rev. 1 (2 letters), etc. by Robin Cover 1988
• ISO 639 Language Codes Rev. 1 (2 letters), etc. by Univ. Toronto 1988
• ISO 639, Rev 2 Draft. Language Codes (3 letters) 1996
• ISO 639, Rev 2 Draft. Language Codes (3 letters) 1996
• ISO 639, Rev 2 Draft. Language Codes (3 letters) 1996
• ISO 3166. Country Codes (2 letters)
• ISO 3166. Country Codes (2 and 3 letters)

EDI (esp. XML EDI )

• XML/EDI Whitepaper

Library Metadata (Cataloging)

• German Library Metadata Web Page
• OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop, Dublin Core Report, March 1995
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

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